Dr. Fauci: 100,000 deaths in U.S. very real possibility; New York doctor: "this is a war zone, a medical war zone"; Trump extends social distancing guidelines until April 30th; FDA approves emergency use of two drugs to treat patients

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 30 March 2020

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Dr. Fauci: 100,000 deaths in U.S. very real possibility; Navy medical ship comfort arrives in New York City; Health experts say peak of virus could be weeks away; Modeling estimate shows nearly 225,000 beds will be needed; Trump extends social distancing guidelines until April 30th; New York doctor: "this is a war zone, a medical war zone"; Inside one NYC hospital fighting coronavirus; Hospital ICU at capacity, morgue overflowing; New York docs: "we are scared too"; Trump extends social distancing though April, abandons efforts to reopen U.S. by Easter; Cuomo on Trump's suggestion of stolen medical supplies: "I don't know what he's trying to say"; New CNN poll: Americans split on federal response to coronavirus: 48% say good job, 47% say poor job; Amazon workers at NY warehouse strike over safety concerns; Oil prices crash as demand declines during pandemic; Treasury secretary: expect stimulus checks via deposit within three weeks; FDA approves emergency use of two drugs to treat patients, despite little p[roof of effectiveness; FDA approves 15-minute coronavirus test; Entire family in Italy dies of coronavirus: mother, father, two sons; U.K. official: prepare for "significant period" of lockdown; 61 doctors in Italy die of coronavirus; Germany taking patients from other countries lacking ICU beds; "Sunny" delivers groceries to quarantined neighbor with health problems; Happy 80th birthday Dr. Tapper!To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper at this hour. There are at least 155,000
0:06.4	confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States and 2,845 deaths in the U.S. that is up more than five times from the 501 deaths in the U.S.
0:18.2	that I brought to you at this time last week.
0:20.7	The nation's top infectious disease expert,. Anthony Fauchy has warned this could
0:25.2	get much worse in the United States. Dr. Fauchy standing by the assessment.
0:29.6	He told me on Sunday morning that there could be at least 1 million Americans infected and potentially 100
0:37.0	to 200,000, 100 to 200,000 deaths in the United States, a horrible statistic to contemplate but
0:45.2	it's one that President Trump is testing as a sign of how well the Trump
0:49.4	administration is managing this crisis. So if we can hold that down as we're saying to 100,000, it's a horrible number,
1:00.0	maybe even less, but to 100,000, so we have between a hundred and two
1:04.8	hundred thousand we all together have done a very good job.
1:09.3	That of course is a dramatic shift from about a month ago when President Trump
1:14.0	suggested cases in the US would go down to zero. Right now new coronavirus
1:19.4	hotspots are cropping up across the nation in places such as Michigan and Louisiana, though New York
1:26.7	remains the hardest hit so far in the pandemic in the United States.
1:32.1	Today in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty,
1:34.0	the U.S. Navy Medical Ship Comfort arrived in New York to ease the burden on overwhelmed
1:40.0	hospitals in New York by treating non-Curonavirus patients, of which there are many globally,
1:45.9	we should note there are more than 770,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus around the world and at least 36,000 deaths around the world.
1:56.7	That number of course assumes that the government numbers from places such as China
2:01.9	are accurate which of course is a big if, especially
2:05.9	as it pertains to the Chinese government. With experts warning that the peak of
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